Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, February 1, 7-8:30 pmSocialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca. Registration is underway.

WBPL Writer's Club

Tuesday, February 13, 1:30-3 pm

Writers, join others as you share creative ideas. No experience necessary. Check out Thoughts on Paper, the Writer's Club Quarterly Journal. Registration is underway.

Let's Talk About Books Thursday, February 22, 1:30-3:30 pmThe West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard. Registration is underway.

Books and Bites Monday, February 26, 7-8 pmAre you in your 20s or 30s and looking for a book group geared just for you? Join us at Panera Bread in West Babylon where you can grab a snack, some coffee & discuss the book Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. Registration is underway. Can’t make it to the Library to register? Find and follow us on Meetup.com/Books-and-Bites-Book-Group and download the book at Live-brary.com. Newcomers welcome!

Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man.

Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives & legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.

A sequel to Waiting to Exhale picks up 15 years later to find Savannah contemplating divorce, Bernadine succumbing to painkiller addiction after a second husband's swindle, Robin falling into shopaholism and Gloria confronting profound change after a fateful event.

Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.

The award-winning author of The Noble Hustle chronicles the daring survival story of a cotton plantation slave in Georgia, who, after suffering at the hands of both her owners and fellow slaves, races through the Underground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close behind.